I’m drawing up plans for my first layout since I was a wee bairn.The track plan is based on Middleton in Teesdale. Anyone have any ideas on how interesting this will be to operate, or how I can get more out of it?

It’s a hangover from when the land was stolen.

That x lots

Samantha has to go now…..

Whatever we do with Taylor’s it comes out tasting like over-stewed tea.

No, needs to have horse traffic and ideally no locked gates or stiles

That’s old hat – cyclists can claim too, since 2000.

We were lying in bed one night.
“Meow!” said our cat…
….six hours after we’d had her put down at the vets….

“she’s fallen off”?

“Thank god for that. I thought I’d gone deaf!”

You’d be mental to want to ride on any derestricted dual carriageway anyway. I saw a tt on the A303 on sunday. Possibly the worst thing I could imagine doing on a bike. working your arse off for no fun with an extreme risk of death through no fault of your own from impatient motorists. mental

True enough, but as more and more roads are widened and dualled, once perfectly usable cycling roads are made off-limits.

Mark Flabendish

teehee

I’ve had “she’s not pedalling at the back,” in German, Italian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Maltese and Sami* to the best of my knowledge.

*not absolutely sure about all of these but what else might people be shouting at a tandem team?

big n daft has already pointed out that higher rights may exist. The rights of way legislation was meant to create a register of proven rights, not to create a means by which access could be restricted. Sadly, too many landowners think that the rights recorded on the definitive map are the most access they have to give, when it should be treated as the minimum.

Anyway, one legally proven way of establishing higher rights is to ride a path, openly, without permission or objection from the landowner, for 20 years. This is called presumed dedication of a right of way. If that isn’t legal sanction for riding footpaths, I don’t know what is.

My suspicions point at sparrows. We had a similar thing with a nest of blue tits whose fledglings ended up in the road below, to the joy of the neighbour’s cat. A sparrow was harassing the parents and pulling nest material out. There wasn’t anything the parents could do to stop it.

**** Europeans coming over here killing our kings…

They won by 52 arrows in the eye to 48.

You have to use a bible.

Jeez mcmoonter, was that during the Depression?

Who’d have thought this thread would turn up more than one photo of kids in lederhosen?
I’m the blond bombshell, with my mum, Grandma from Germany, my big sister and little bro. c1970.

Definitely tubeless ready tyres and official advice is only to use tubeless specific rims but I have run tubeless tyres on ordinary clinchers for a year with no difficulty. I used electrical tape and Continental sealant.

than waking up and realising I’m still me.

You all right, Bud?

PLAY LOUD

Continental sealant seems much less prone to drying out or forming rubber balls.

I still haven’t stopped laughing.

My railways were constructed in the garden, through cuttings in wild garlic. Twigs were a major export, and shortbread fingers imported.

The twig economy.

Well, that’s cheered me up no end.

^that really. DOT is neutralised by water so keep a plant spray bottle handy and use kitchen roll to wipe up drips. Wear nitrile gloves and eye protection if you are super-anxious.
DOT 4 and 5 are not compatible.
DOT 4 and 5.1 are interchangeable.

Mostly a bimble
Except one climb
King of mountain!

Thanks! It’s all Peco code 55

I dropped in to the exhibition at Locomotion in Shildon at the weekend. A guy was showing a layout using Peco code 55, all beautifully ballasted. It looked absolutely the mutt’s.

njee20. mint! what track are you using?

Jewbacca

Is it too early to mention baby robins?

Very sad. Noakesy was a friend to most kids of my age. He never patronised and always seemed warm and funny.

First bushy ride

Snuck snuck!

8) My sister in law invented the Whicker ice lolly. Cinzano. She was 9.

Much easier to grow than tomatoes.

Very good. I would show you some pics but I forgot to take any. 50 miles around Durham and Northumberland, though. On the road bike because I sold the mtb at the weekend and the new one won’t be here until tomorrow…

But then again…

The fact that he did not have a better camera filled him with egret.

Drain the tub through a fine mesh stocking.
Boil for 1 hour.
Add carrots, onions, turnip and lamb and reduce to a simmer.

Just sold my fs and have a Genesis steel ht 29er on order.

Ride until someone tells you not to. That someone needs to be the landowner or the landowner’s agent. Anyone else is just a busybody.
If you meet the landowner/landowner’s agent, you can strike up a polite conversation along the lines of, “Ah! Pleased to meet you – I never know how the landowner feels about access until I meet him so it’s nice to have the opportunity to ask you.”
You never know, they might not mind.

That looks like a lame duck.